Michael Todd


Biography

Life Events

Videos

Movie Clip

Around The World In 80 Days (1956) -- (Movie Clip) So Keen About Whist Harrumphing back in London at news that Fogg (David Niven) has rescued and escaped with Indian princess Aouda (Shirley MacLaine, delivering her first lines), joining them at sea, in producer Mike Todd's Around The World In 80 Days, 1956.
Around The World In 80 Days (1956) -- (Movie Clip) These Foreigners Boarding the Bombay to Calcutta train, Fogg (David Niven) and the general (Sir Cedric Hardwicke) aid the hasty retreat of Passepartout (Cantinflas), followed by train's-eye-view widescreen stuff, in Around The World In 80 Days 1956.
Around The World In 80 Days (1956) -- (Movie Clip) Gallic Braggadocio First Passepartou (Cantinflas) then Fogg (David Niven) with their French travel agent who of course is Charles Boyer, providing them with a famous mode of transport, early in producer Mike Todd's Around The World In 80 Days, 1956.
Around The World In 80 Days (1956) -- (Movie Clip) Speed Is Good The second part of newsman Edward R. Murrow's opening, unveiling producer Michael Todd's widely promoted "Todd AO" widescreen image, and the first appearance of David Niven as Phileas Fogg, from Around The World In 80 Days, 1956.
This Is Cinerama (1952) -- (Movie Clip) Motion Pictures Breaking Away After the ballet sequence, co-producer and director Michael Todd's Niagara Falls contribution, then returning to fellow investor and narrator Lowell Thomas on his set, now very wide-screen, in This Is Cinerama, 1952, also produced by Merian C. Cooper and Robert L. Bendick.

Bibliography